Alternative discourses in Asian social science : responses to Eurocentrism /
Alatas, Farid,Syed.
New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-216) and index.
The central problem of the social sciences in Asia: critique, diagnosis and prescription -- Theorizing the state of the social sciences -- The structure of academic dependency and the global division of labour in the social sciences -- The definition and variety of alternative discourses in Asia -- Nativist or autonomous social science: a clash of orientations -- Towards an adequate conceptualization of relevance and irrelevance in the social sciences -- Alternative discourses and power -- Rethinking the teaching of the social sciences -- The prospects and future of alternative discourses in Asia.
Social sciences
Social sciences
Eurocentrism.
Orientalism.